A semi-official podcast dedicated to the Earthdawn role-playing game, hosted by Dan Boice and Earthdawn developer Josh Harrison. Whether it's rules basics, setting lore, or behind-the-scenes insights, this is the place to start building your legend.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 8 days 6 hours 22 minutes
episode 54: EDSG Episode 54 - Forge Weapon
* Happy New Year! Welcome to year two.
* Emails and Forge Weapon
* Email from Matthew: Condolences and praise for Dan’s Legends Readings
* Email from Brian: Strengths of alternate mounts for Cavalryman adepts
* Forge Blade/Weapon
* Six different variants of the talent (depending how you count)
* First Edition overview
* Adept’s Way Addendum
* Introduces cap to bonus equal to base weapon damage...
episode 55: EDSG Episode 55 - Airships
* We will soon be doing an episode focused on Astral Sight and astral perception. Get your questions in!
* Episode Fifty-Five: Airships
* Pop Culture References: Firefly, Red Dwarf, Star Trek, Killjoys, Battlestar Galactica, The Orville, Farscape
* Wooden Airships
* Airboat: Smallest airship, small capacity, short range. Flying rowboat.
* Drakkar: “Longship”, scout or patrol vessel. Common among highland troll raiders...
episode 56: EDSG Episode 56 - Shaman
* Discipline Review: Shaman
* Anthropological background on the term
* Some thoughts on the problematic origins and use of “shaman”
* Goals of the Fourth Edition rework of the Shaman Discipline
* The in-character essay
* Shaman as Earthdawn’s take on the “druid” archetype
* Karma Ritual
* Artisan Skills
* Half-Magic Abilities
* “Fetishes” as set dressing for spellcasting
* Novice Tier Discipline Talents and...
episode 57: EDSG Episode 57 - Astral Sight
* Astral Sight and Astral Sensing
* Questions from Dustin
* Does a character directly perceiving astral space see native astral entities as imprints or in their full appearance?
* Does a character using Astral Sight see the imprints of astral entities present in astral space?
* Tangent into astral perception translating information about magical energy into stimuli the Namegiver can understand. It is not necessarily limited to sight...
episode 58: EDSG Episode 58 - Emails and Blood Wood
* Email Questions and Blood Wood
* Email from Matthew: Steps Desktop Version
* Email from Brandon: Comments and question on Forge Weapon
* Why was Ukraine chosen as the setting for Barsaive?
* Josh discovers ED4 doesn’t have Improve Blade/Weapon
* Anonymous Email: Upcoming episode on the Passions?
* Favorite adventures for new groups?
* Managing crunchiness of the Step Dice? Rules lite options?
* Blood Wood
* It is a fascinating...
episode 59: EDSG Episode 59 - Passions and Questors: Astendar and Jaspree
* Part one of our series on Passions and Questors
* Reminder: FreedoniaCon February 19-21
* The Passions
* Earthdawn’s version of deities.
* Questors can work together, but no large-scale formal religious organization.
* Passions represent ideals of Namegiver society.
* True nature is unclear.
* Astendar: Passion of love, art, music, creative arts and inspiration.
* Vaguely analogous to Aphrodite, Cupid, Apollo, the Muses...
episode 60: EDSG Episode 60 - Live from Freedonia Con
* Episode Sixty LIVE from Freedonia Con 2021
* Brief look at show stats
* Email from Dustin: Thanks for the Astral Sight episode!
* Email from Nanander: Impressions provided by astral sight?
* Visibility of patterns through materials?
* Pattern centerpoints; space the pattern takes up “inside” an item.
* Names and ED4 philosophy addressing them.
* Email from Lee: Fiction suggestions for astral sight inspiration...
episode 61: EDSG Episode 61 - Spell Acquisition
* Into the Weeds: Spell Acquisition
* Historical Retrospective: First Edition
* Start with PER Step in spell points.
* No free or granted spells after creation.
* Spells must be acquired through training with mentors, finding in kaers, or looting from dead enemy magicians.
* No codified cost in silver, no Legend Point cost...
episode 62: EDSG Episode 62 - Passions: Chorrolis and Raggok
* Passions Part Two
* Chorrolis: Passion of Wealth, Trade, Envy, and Desire
* Overlap of aspects and how that is expressed in different Passions.
* Even the Passions that aren’t Mad can have toxic or destructive expressions.
* Trade and exchange; Throal’s cultural dissemination as an expression of Chorrolis’s ideals.
* Symbols and powers of Chorrolis.
* Ways to show devotion to Chorrolis.
* Not just about raw wealth; trade as a cultural good...
episode 63: EDSG Episode 63 - Email and Death's Sea
* Most of the recorded streams from FreedoniaCon are available on the FASA Games YouTube Channel.
* Email from Riley: Ways of handling magician spell acquisition.
* Josh reveals Virag has 44 spells in her grimoire and talks spell scarcity.
* Email from Ted: True Ephemeral Bolt and how its secondary effect interacts with other tests.
* Email from Lee: Interpretations of Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham as Disciplines and followers of Passions...